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Don Vandewalle is an Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor at Southern Methodist University (SMU), and the past chair of the Management and Organizations Department at the Cox School of Business (2006-2014). His research focuses on feedback, achievement motivation, and growth mindset theory. Leading research journals featuring his research include the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Management, and Personnel Psychology. Five of his international conference papers have won "Best Paper Awards" from the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Professor Vandewalle has earned the "Cox Distinguished MBA Teaching Award" the past seven years, the "Cox Most Valuable EMBA Professor Award", the "Cox Teaching Innovation Award", the "SMU President's Outstanding Faculty Award", the "SMU Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor Award", and in 2010 was the second Cox professor in the span of a decade inducted into SMU's Academy of Distinguished Teachers. In 2012, he received the "SMU Distinguished University Citizen Award".

Professor Vandewalle earned a PhD in organizational behavior and strategic management from the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management, an MBA from the University of Kansas, and a BA with honors from Park College.